Comments on The Final Stretch – Chapter 72: Rick
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Seren
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: The Final Stretch – Chapter 72: Rick
I'd just like to say, this is my favorite chapter in the fic. I distinctly remember reading this the night it came out (very early morning?) and then being absolutely mortified at Floatzel being murdered, and then Spirit too (despite the fact that they were quickly revealed to still be alive in the narrative, because I couldn't shake the feeling that, no, this particular author would totally leave that as a morbid twist for the next chapter). I'm really glad they survive, and I really like the but where Weavile only attacks after seeing Floatzel injured, but very few fic moments had left me in that sort of horrified shock.
[09/01/2019 22:58:59]
mamma
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: The Final Stretch – Chapter 72: Rick
Hver kaflinn á fætur öðrum meira spennandi en sá á undan. Gott að fá upprifjun á því að Rick hafi kastað pokebolta með Mew að Mark og beðið hann að taka hann og fara með hann. Þessu var ég löngu búin að gleyma. Hvernig tapaði Mark Mew aftur?Reply: Mark sleppti Mew einfaldlega lausum - þetta var áður en hann var fenginn til að reyna að fanga alla goðsagnapokémonana, svo það var engin ástæða til að halda honum. Þetta verður reyndar rifjað upp í 74. kafla líka.
[04/28/2017 06:34:40]
Rindstone
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: The Final Stretch – Chapter 72: Rick
It seems kind of unlikely to me that only one trainer in the whole league had a Tyranitar.Reply: The Ouen League didn't have that many participants (less than a hundred people), and Tyranitar are supposed to be pretty rare - Mark and May only found Dratini and Larvitar when they did because they happened to be in the right place at the right time (I wrote it very shoddily at the time, but that was certainly meant to be the idea).
Note that that's just the participants - it's quite possible there was somebody in the (much larger) audience who had a Tyranitar. Rick is obviously not thinking terribly rationally here; he heard there was a trainer, looked up the teams of the League participants to try to find that trainer, found May, then made up a narrative where it absolutely has to be her, which only coincidentally aligned with the truth, and latched onto it.
[12/31/2016 21:47:46]
SilverLatios
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: The Final Stretch – Chapter 72: Rick
Oh man, this chapter really drives home how close to the end we really are… It feels almost surreal to see Mark now reminiscing to events so long ago, events us as readers are just as nostalgic for. And Rick is so terrifying in the way only a regular, insane human can be. Mystical end-of-the-world threats mean so little when a man tries to kill you with his bare hands. And Mewtwo^2… I was terrified their Pokemon WOULD just BAM be dead in an instant with how much Mewtwo^2 just doesn't give a crap about any preestablished rules of Pokemon.
And as it has been for so long, hitting the end of the chapter STILL feels like being a dog racing in delight only to be stopped harshly by its chain when the words just run out. HNNNNGGHH. My need to know what will happen next is so burning. It's so heartening to see more TQftL after so long and so sad that finally, FINALLY, we are seeing the end of it.. Of this version at least.
[12/25/2016 02:04:05]
Happy
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: The Final Stretch – Chapter 72: Rick
W E W
[12/06/2016 19:48:34]
Automatistic
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: The Final Stretch – Chapter 72: Rick
Awwh what a nice moment between Mark and Charizard, this is going to be a sweet chapter- oh sweet jesus no.
To be fair I didn't really see any kind of meeting between them and Rick going well. I was just going "This is not a good idea! He's not going to be happy to see you!" Also oh no Floatzel. :(
We're entering the endgame here, and I love it.
[11/27/2016 02:37:17]
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